Tales of the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / / Galit Hasan-Rokem

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455653203321
• Autore: Hasan-Rokem Galit
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35687-9; 9786612356872; 0-520-92894-6; 1-59734-930-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Collana: The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; ; 4
• Disciplina: 398.2/089/924
• Soggetti: Jews - Israel - Galilee; Jewish legends - History and criticism; Rabbinical literature - History and criticism; Women in rabbinical literature; Folklore in rabbinical literature; Electronic books.; Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-190) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies -- 2. Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing -- 3. Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences -- 4. The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire -- 5. Between Us: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Index of Ancient Sources and Authors -- General Index -- Index of Modern Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, ; Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.

The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 / / Gabriel Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248147703316
• Autore: Jackson Gabriel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1965
• ISBN: 9786613852359; 1-4008-2018-9; 1-283-53990-X
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 578 pages)
• Disciplina: 946; 946.081
• Soggetti: Spain History Republic, 1931-1939
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Romanized.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- PREFACE -- ORGANIZATIONS AND POLITICAL TERMS -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1. The Background of the Spanish Republic -- 2. The First Days of the Republic -- 3. The Creation of a Constitution -- 4. The Politics of the Azaña Government -- 5. Economic Problems During the Azaña Era -- 6. The Defeat of the Left -- 7. Government by the Center-Right -- 8. The Revolution of October 1934 -- 9. Politics and Ideologies in 1935 -- 10. The Popular Front Election -- 11. From February to June 1936 -- 12. The Approach of the Civil War -- 13. The Pronunciamiento of July 17-20 -- 14. The Beginnings of International Intervention -- 15. Military Developments, August-October 1936 -- 16. Revolution and Terror in the Popular Front Zone -- 17. Authority and Terror in the Insurgent Zone -- 18. The Assault on Madrid -- 19. Politics and War in Early 1937 -- 20. Guadalajara and the Unification of Nationalist -- 21. The Fall of Largo ; Caballero -- 22. The War in the North -- 23. The Initiatives of the Negrin Government -- 24. The Development of Nationalist Spain -- 25. Efforts to Limit Suffering and Destruction -- 26. The Ebro and the Fall of Catalonia -- 27. The End of the War -- 28. The Spanish Tragedy -- APPENDICES -- A. Chronology -- B. The Black Legend of the Spanish Republic -- C. The Elections of the Second Spanish Republic -- D. Deaths Attributable to the Civil War -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: At the time of its occurrence, the Spanish Civil War epitomized for the Western world the confrontation of democracy, fascism, and communism. An entire generation of Englishmen and Americans felt a deeper emotional involvement in that war than in any other world event of their lifetimes, including the Second World War. On the Continent, its "lessons," as interpreted by participants of many nationalities, have played an important role in the politics of both Western Europe and the People's Democracies. Everywhere in the Western world, readers of history have noted parallels between the Spanish Republic of 1931 and the revolutionary governments which existed in France and Central Europe during the year 1848. The Austrian revolt of October 1934, reminded participants and observers alike of the Paris Commune of 1871, and even the most politically unsophisticated observers could see in the Spain of 1936 all the ideological and class conflicts which had characterized revolutionary France of 1789 and revolutionary Russia of 1917.It is not surprising, therefore, that the worthwhile books on the Spanish Civil War have almost all emphasized its international ramifications and have discussed its political crises entirely in the vocabulary of the French and Russian revolutions. Relatively few of the foreign participants realized that the Civil War had arisen out of specifically Spanish circumstances. Few of them knew the history of the Second Spanish Republic, which for five years prior to the war had been grappling with the problems of what we now call an "underdeveloped nation. "In Spanish Republic and the Civil War, Gabriel Jackson expounds the history of the Second Republic and the Civil War primarily as seen from within Spain.

Arte en la sangre

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150508603321
• Autore: MacBird Bonnie
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: HarperCollins Espanol
• ISBN: 0-7180-9072-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Musica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Londres. Un nevado diciembre de 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, languidece y ha vuelto a la coca na despu s de una desastrosa investigaci n del Destripador. Watson tampoco puede consolar ni animar a su amigo, hasta que una carta codificada extra amente llega desde Par s. Mlle La Victoire, una hermosa estrella francesa de cabaret escribe que su hijo ileg timo de un lord ingl s ha desaparecido, y ella ha sido atacada en las calles de Montmartre. Al llegar r pidamente a Par s con Watson a su lado, Holmes descubre que el ni o desaparecido es solamente la punta del iceberg de un problema mucho mayor. La estatua m s valiosa desde la Victoria Alada ha sido violentamente robada en Marsella, y varios ni os pertenecientes al molino de seda en Lancashire han sido encontrados muertos. Las pistas en los tres casos se alan a un nico hombre, intocable. Se recuperar a tiempo Will Holmes para encontrar al ni o desaparecido y detener una oleada de asesinatos? Para hacerlo debe ir un paso adelante de un peligroso rival franc s y la amenazadora interferencia de su propio hermano, Mycroft. Esta ltima aventura, al estilo de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, env a al ic nico d o desde Londres hasta Par s y a los fr os terrenos agrestes de Lancashire en un caso que prueba al l mite la amistad de Watson y la fragilidad y los talentos de la propia naturaleza art stica de Sherlock Holmes.